When Linus was reviewing the 680 he had stuttering when running Skyrim on default settings. He overclocked it slightly without raising the voltage and the stuttering went away. Might want to give it a shot.

I have been with ATI and later AMD since 1995 ( ATI 3D Rage chip) and last Friday i switched to Nvidia replacing HD 6970. What a disaster !!! My sound is crackling when enything is played, every single game stutters and to me it is not playable. It doesn`t matter if I leave it stock, OCed, put Adaptive Vsync or InGame one on - it`s just there all the time. Card that runs supperfast and cannot offer smooth frames is a shock, I should have gone for HD 7970 or stayed with HD 6970. Unless next drivers resolve the case I will treat it as the worst buy of VGA in my life. I have tried putting Power Control to 115% , 132% and still the same, and this crackling sound (onboard), I consider getting PCIe Sound Card now...

then started progressive O/C step by step and found no crackling sound and stuttering finally got the final P10341 3DMark 2011 result. i have tried FIFA 2012, F1 2011 and BT3 and found perfect and smooth picture only. Such a great card!!!

I followed the guide and reinstalled my drivers. I still have the same issue. Vsync off in the game, Adaptive Vsync on at the control panel, and Triple buffering on. When FRAPS is recording gameplay video the problem totally disappears and the game runs very smooth. When FRAPS is not recording video, it stutters and the screen tears a bit even though the fps are a constant 60.

heh i have that in TeamFortress2 & vsync and forced AO + TrAA-4xss, fraps 60fps recording makes it super smooth..

I mentioned it to nvidia and now its kinda better, but still its not it..

Well you could try frames to render ahead at 1 (default auto app is 3), use d3doverrider for triple buffering and disable ingame vsync.

Also did you try ingame vsync on + adaptive? I tested 301.10 for a bit and it works ok in Dirt2, either ingame vsync on +adpative in profile or ingame off and apative on. But in alanwake it didnt work it tearing in both cases..Edited by TheHunter - 3/27/12 at 5:06pm